Bill Denehy (baseball)
| Bill Denehy | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: March 31, 1946 Middletown, Connecticut |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 16, 1967, for the New York Mets | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 19, 1971, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 1–10 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.56 | ||
| Innings pitched | 104 2⁄3 | ||
| Strikeouts | 63 | ||
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William Francis Denehy (born March 31, 1946) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach. Denehy threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, and weighed 200 lb (91 kg). He was born in Middletown, Connecticut.
The second-ever Middletown Little League alumnus to play Major League Baseball, he signed with the New York Mets out of high school for a $20,000 bonus and made his professional debut with the Auburn Mets of the New York–Penn League (then Class A) in 1965. He led the league in wins with 13, and the following season won nine of 11 decisions with the Double-A Williamsport Mets of the Eastern League, compiling a stellar 1.97 earned run average. In 1967, Denehy made 15 Major League appearances for the Mets, dropping seven of eight decisions with an ERA of 4.67. The 1967 Mets finished in tenth and last place, the fifth cellar-dwelling team in the expansion club's six-year history.
On November 27, 1967, the Mets traded Denehy to the Washington Senators for the Senators' manager, Gil Hodges, who was then in the middle of a multi-year contract he had signed as Washington's skipper. The Mets' managerial post was open after the late-season departure of Wes Westrum, and team officials began negotiations with the Senators to release Hodges from his contract, which still had a year to run.
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